Publications by Chiara Gastaldi

A Computational Framework for Memory Engrams

Memory engrams in mice brains are potentially related to groups of concept cells in human brains. A single concept cell in human hippocampus responds, for example, not only to different images of the same object or person but also to its name written down ...

Springer Cham2024

A dynamic attractor network model of memory formation, reinforcement and forgetting

Wulfram Gerstner, Chiara Gastaldi, Marta Boscaglia

Empirical evidence shows that memories that are frequently revisited are easy to recall, and that familiar items involve larger hippocampal representations than less familiar ones. In line with these observations, here we develop a modelling approach to pr ...

Public Library Science2023

A dynamical systems approach to synaptic consolidation and associations of concepts in hippocampus

Chiara Gastaldi

In the present work, we approach two key aspects of memory formation: associative memory and synaptic consolidation. The storage of associative memory is commonly related to the medial temporal lobe in humans. Experimental evidence shows that the memories ...

EPFL2021

When shared concept cells support associations: Theory of overlapping memory engrams

Wulfram Gerstner, Tilo Schwalger, Chiara Gastaldi, Emanuela De Falco

Assemblies of neurons, called concepts cells, encode acquired concepts in human Medial Temporal Lobe. Those concept cells that are shared between two assemblies have been hypothesized to encode associations between concepts. Here we test this hypothesis in ...

2021

Optimal Stimulation Protocol in a Bistable Synaptic Consolidation Model

Wulfram Gerstner, Chiara Gastaldi, Samuel Pavio Muscinelli

Synaptic changes induced by neural activity need to be consolidated to maintain memory over a timescale of hours. In experiments, synaptic consolidation can be induced by repeating a stimulation protocol several times and the effectiveness of consolidation ...

2019

Contribution of next-to-leading order and Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal corrections to thermal dilepton emission in heavy-ion collisions

Yannis Burnier, Chiara Gastaldi

Recently lots of effort has been made to obtain the next-to-leading-order and Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal corrections to the thermal dilepton emission rate in perturbative QCD. Here we apply these results to the plasma created in heavy-ion collisions and see ...

Amer Physical Soc2016